Ring in sensitive changes

Ignite team spirit

Bring spark to your communication

Take the stage and make a mark

Give an amazing speech

Step into the unknown

Consulting

Combining our expertise in consultancy and artistic command, SHAKE THE SCENE is an innovative, demanding and aware sparring partner. We embrace your strategic goals, help you clarify options and place you centre stage.

Coaching

Speaking out in public with wit, skill and authenticity : a must-have for leaders and high-potentials. With SHAKE THE SCENE, unleash your assets, maximize impact, engage your audience… and have fun !

Events

Each event created for internal or external audiences is an original work designed for and with you. Scripting, writing, staging, performing, filmmaking : SHAKE THE SCENE creates surprise, humour and rhythm.

Communication

What if spirited and playful communication was the most efficient tool for any responsible strategic move ? Implementation, mobilization, transformation : SHAKE THE SCENE uses image, art and performance to enhance the human factor and foster change.

About us

Marianne Soumoy created SHAKE THE SCENE in 2015, a consulting enterprise specialized in ambitious, spirited and playful corporate communication, to host her expanding business. She personally handles the consultancy and artistic direction as well as the coaching of leaders and carefully orchestrates the skills of a reliable network of artistic and technical experts in order for each project and original work to succeed.

An author and director, Marianne Soumoy has moreover been performing for over 10 years on stage, on screen and on television. She is also an EM Lyon graduate (a prestigious business school), a former consultant in strategy and management and former Marketing Director for France of Cartesis, a leader in Business Intelligence (part of SAP). The ultimate blend of those experiences ? Acting for business !
Humour, impact and highlighting personal talent lie at the heart of all our activities.

The team : SHAKE THE SCENE manages a team of artistic and technical talents, all seasoned and driven, focused on your projects

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As I had recently been hired, I needed to create connections within my division. I was looking for a different activity that would help mix the teams, have fun together, reveal hidden talents... Marianne suggested a performance based team-building session. It turned out to be a winning formula Read more...

Maria Modrono, Marketing Director Euler Hermès France

Since 2009, Marianne has been writing sketches for us and stages those with employees from the headquarters. It is a tremendously powerful means to create a strong connection between the teams in the field and the headquarters. We also work with her on personal development sessions in the framework of an « elite » training for our managers. Read more...

Xavier Rosso, Director of Sales Tupperware France

Marianne is a very efficient coach. It is obvious she knows the corporate world. She is accustomed to rubbing shoulders with executives and leaders and knows how to help us gain time. Read more...

Jean-Emmanuel Vernay, General Director Invest Securities

As Sales Network Training Manager at Tupperware France, I was given the opportunity to enjoy the professionalism, creativity and reactivity of SHAKE THE SCENE.As a Trainer, Marianne Soumoy is involved in training our trainers in our Tupperware Management School, aimed at the elite of our sales staff, where she teaches public speaking techniques as well as methods to capture the attention of one’s audience. Read more...

Ouahiba Kafsi, Training Manager Tupperware France

Marianne is a great coach! She is witty, and observes every person she works with very thoroughly before offering a tailor-made approach. She helps you bring your presence to the next level.

For the internal launch of a new offer of services, we wished to make an impression by organizing a big interactive work session in the form of workshops on stage. Convincing the lukewarm management, finding themes, organizing teams and managing them… we could not have achieved any of this without Marianne’s involvement. Read more...

Cécile Laroze, Head of Communication CER France val de Loire

In an industrial company such as MAN, the performance of sales is a key factor in success. In this context, each year we organize an awards ceremony in the form of a ceremony/show bringing to the fore the best performers in those categories that are essential to our business in front of their peers. Read more...

A great partner !Tupperware has been working closely with Marianne for almost 10 years. Marianne’s writing is very accurate and hits the nail on the head with our audience. Funny, striking, relevant.Read more...

Marion Petrini, Marketing Project Leader Tupperware France

Marianne is very skillful at observing, handing out advice and helping speakers to turn their public addresses into true performances.

Thomas Saint-Hilaire, Vice-President Cap Gemini Consulting

We decided to promote innovation within the company on the occasion of one of our in-ternal communication events. In order to make an impact, we chose to broach the topic of innovation in an unusual and playful manner ! Read more...

Tupperware

« As Sales Network Training Manager at Tupperware France, I was given the opportunity to enjoy the professionalism, creativity and reactivity of SHAKE THE SCENE.

As a Trainer, Marianne Soumoy is involved in training our trainers in our Tupperware Management School, aimed at the elite of our sales staff, where she teaches public speaking techniques as well as methods to capture the attention of one’s audience. The feedback on those training sessions is unanimously outstanding and the observable and beneficial change in trainees is striking.

As a Scriptwriter and Director, we entrusted Marianne with the largest training budget of 2015 to create, write and stage Sitcoms (short features) intended to trigger reactions among our sales staff when faced with off-the-wall and outrageous situations, to aid the progress of selling techniques and of interpersonal skills. The very tight production schedule helped us realize Marianne’s creative potential as well as her great reactivity. Our network of dealers was very pleased with the result.

Finally, as I am used to dealing with external service providers, I must admit that Marianne knows on the one hand how to become involved in a project but also with an external training team by contributing her undeniable know-how as well as a very positive state of mind that boosts the group. »

Man

« In an industrial company such as MAN, the performance of sales is a key factor in suc-cess. In this context, each year we organize an awards ceremony in the form of a ceremony/show bringing to the fore the best performers in those categories that are essential to our business in front of their peers. Naturally, the people on stage have no stage experience. That is where Marianne steps in. We faced an additional obstacle the year the executive committee took up the torch of the presentation. A very delicate deci-sion given the gathering (employees and the French sales team): not only did we need to produce an innovative show but it also had to be funny enough and yet not ridiculous…. involving individuals from the management committee who weren’t all willing to take part… Not only was Marianne able to motivate everyone but she also won the trust of the « undecided ». We still carry fond memories of our management committee performing and singing, and it still positively informs many conversations. A complete success in which Marianne played a leading role by brilliantly switching from kindness to firmness. »

CER France Val de Loire

« For the internal launch of a new offer of services, we wished to make an impression by organizing a big interactive work session in the form of workshops on stage. Convincing the lukewarm management, finding themes, organizing teams and managing them… we could not have achieved any of this without Marianne’s involvement. Motivating and enabling the organizing team, inspiring and revealing the stakes: Marianne was above all a great coordinator for our dream team on D-day. She was very competent in supporting us and hiring a great team to turn our 220 employees into as many budding artists who were delighted to perform, speak, shout, sing and laugh together on stage. A great organisation, an impressive way with words and a sharp sense of humour helped inject our value proposition with a powerful collective lease of life through striking sketches whose punch lines still echo in the corridors two months on.

Working with Marianne is truly delightful: to be enjoyed to one’s heart’s content, to share and experience at all costs ! »

Euler Hermès France

« As I had recently been hired, I needed to create connections within my division. I was looking for a different activity that would help mix the teams, have fun together, reveal hidden talents… Marianne suggested a performance based team-building session. It turned out to be a winning formula : we had a great time together and were able to invent, create and perform first-rate sketches. We had so much fun… we still remember it. I strongly recommend the magic and professionalism of SHAKE THE SCENE. »

Invest Securities

« Marianne is a very efficient coach. It is obvious she knows the corporate world. She is accustomed to rubbing shoulders with executives and leaders and knows how to help us gain time. She pushed me beyond my comfort zone and I very soon discovered I had new capacities, new « functionalities » in a sense, in terms of communication and persuasion. Her pocketbook to public speaking never leaves me ! »

Tupperware

« A great partner !
Tupperware has been working closely with Marianne for almost 10 years. Marianne’s writing is very accurate and hits the nail on the head with our audience. Funny, striking, relevant. Marianne knows how to unleash the dormant perfumers in us, even those that are truly hidden!
We are happy to recommend the high standard of her reliable services.”

Tupperware

« Since 2009, Marianne has been writing sketches for us and stages those with employees from the headquarters. It is a tremendously powerful means to create a strong connection between the teams in the field and the headquarters. We also work with her on personal development sessions in the framework of an « elite » training for our managers.
Working with Marianne is very enjoyable : her goodwill, her listening skills but also her level of demand help us to perform like comedians and to enjoy it. However, as far as I am concerned, her impact stretches much further. Those stage exercises are genuine assets if one wishes to speak in public, to deliver a message and, more importantly, to build one’s confidence! Rest assured : the impact will be strong and real among your employees. »

Axys Consultants

« We decided to promote innovation within the company on the occasion of one of our internal communication events. In order to make an impact, we chose to broach the topic of innovation in an unusual and playful manner ! We were delighted to be supported by SHAKE THE SCENE while preparing the speech and the staging of an innovative idea that engaged the audience.
For the team who performed on stage, it was an innovative and creative adventure, a rewarding and memorable experience; in their words, a beautiful gift.
For the team that organized the event, Marianne’s coaching, by means of practical and adapted advice, enabled us to grab the attention of our audience and to endow our messages with greater impact.
The element of surprise was achieved for our employees, ready to set off on the road to innovation… Thank you Marianne ! »

Partners

The partners of SHAKE THE SCENE share values and a high level of demand

We are proud to work with Bossert Associates GmbH, one of the
foremost European Leadership development companies.

A leading partner on the complex topics of change and management, Lyonsydney carries innovation at the heart of organisations through an inventive, efficient and expert approach to management and collective enterprise.

O62 Production is an independent production company with which we are happy to collaborate in the fields of cinema, TV/web documentaries and advertising.